760 examples of courier in sentences

A COURIER.

"Well, if you don't get a courier by four o'clock this afternoon, I'll be ready for business at that time.

And yet, to Patricia, it was beginning to seem that Patricia Musgrave was not living, altogether, in that Lichfield which John Charteris has made immortal"that nursery of Free Principles" (according to the Lichfield Courier-Herald) "wherein so many statesmen, lieutenants-general and orators were trained to further the faith of their fathers, to thrill the listening senates, draft constitutions, and bruise the paws of the British lion.

The firing had gone on two hours or more, which seemed only so many minutes, when to the group near General Tyler a courier, panting and dusty, rode in great excitement.

Now, keep your ears open, my lad: you'll hear music off there to the northwest, music that will make Beauregard sick, if that courier's information is exact.

But he had no sooner ran over the lines than he turned to the courier, crying, in visible discomfiture: "When did you leave the war office?"

" A courier who knew Termonde as a flourishing town with fine shops, an ancient town hall of singular beauty and a number of churches of historic interest, found the place on September 11 a smoldering ruin, except for the town hall and one church, on a stone of which he saw the inscription "1311."

A GERMAN PRINCE DIED The Hanover Courier gave the following account by an eyewitness of the death of Prince Frederick William of Lippe at Liege: "On all sides our detachment was surrounded by Belgian troops, who were gradually closing in for purposes of exterminating us.

Just at this time, a rekos (courier) arrived from Mr. Willshire (now at Morocco), bringing letters in answer to those which I had addressed to him, touching my visit to the Emperor.

It was past eleven when the major came, and the only greeting he received was the breathless question, "Did you find him?" "I found something much better than any baron, a courier.

II KARL, THE COURIER "Three days, at least, before we reach Baden.

"Don't you remember the raptures Mrs. Mortimer used to have over their Italian courier, and her funny description of him?

He has lost his fortune, it seems, through no fault of his own, so being fond of a roving life, turned courier for a time, and we are fortunate to have secured him.

Only don't either of you run away with him, as Ponsonby's daughter did with her courier, who wasn't a gentleman, by the way.

" And putting his hands in his pockets, the major strolled about the boat, while the courier made matters comfortable for the day.

On reaching Biebrich, tired and hungry, at nightfall, everything was ready for them, and all went to bed praising Karl, the courier, though Amy, with unusual prudence, added, "He is a new broom now; let us wait a little before we judge.

A far-off shriek half woke her, and starting up, she turned to meet the courier coming in to wake her.

"Mademoiselle forgets I am her courier.

"I shall do so, mademoiselle," and with his gentlemanly bow, the courier left the room.

"I am sent for the colonel of the th dragoons," said a courier in broken English to a soldier, near where the earl lay on the ground, waiting the preparations of his attendants "have I found the right regiment, my friend?"

"Not to my knowledge," rejoined the courier; "my message is to your colonel, from a dying man.

Appeals to their feelings as they rode through the field had been frequent, and their progress was much retarded by attempts to contribute to the ease of a wounded or a dying man; but as the courier constantly urged speed, as the only means of securing the object of their ride, these halts were reluctantly abandoned.

This avant-courier is often a little boy, and sometimes, to save the expense of a horse, for which the traveller has paid, he is sent on foot.

Courier of freedom.

He at once called a courier, who mounted and rode off in haste.

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